Available Options for Rules

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You can configure rules with one or more of the following options:

• Events
• Event Parameters
• Actions
• Action Constants
• Action Parameters

Events

You can configure Microsoft Chat to respond to the following events:

• A new room is created
• A user becomes a host in a room
• A user connects to your chat server
• A user disconnects from your chat server
• A user invites you to a room
• A user is kicked from a room
• A user joins a room
• A user leaves a room
• A user outside your room sends a whisper to you
• A user in your room sends a whisper to you
• A user sends a message to a room

Event Parameters (Variables)

Parameters take the place of information that can be different each time an event occurs.

• Nickname You can type a nickname in the Nickname box, or use one of the following variables:

  %Anyone%
  %Me%
  %AnyoneButMe%

• Room You can type a specific room in the Room box, or use one of the following:

  %AnyOfMyRooms%
  %MyActivatedRoom%
  %MyInactivatedRooms%

  NOTE: When multiple rooms are displayed the room at the top is the Activated room and the other rooms are considered Inactivated.
  
  
• Network You can type a network name in the Network box, or your rule can apply to any network when you use the following:

  %Any%

• Message You can type a specific message in the Message box, or your rule can apply to any message when you use the following:

  %Any%.

Actions

The action performed is dependant on the event that triggers the action. The following actions can be performed:

• Activate or deactivate a rule set
• Ban the event's user from the room
• Connect to a server or network
• Disconnect from the current chat server or network
• Don't display the event in the history window
• Display a message window
• Execute a macro
• Get the identity of the event's user
• Get the lag time of the event's user
• Get the local time of a user
• Get the profile of the event's user
• Get the version information of the event's user
• Select the message associated with the event (text mode only)
• Invite the event's user to a room
• Join a room
• Kick the event's user from the room
• Leave the event's room
• Make the event's user a host of the room
• Make the computer beep
• Play a sound on your computer
• Replace a part of an incoming message
• Send line of a file to a room
• Send a message to a room
• Send an action to a room
• Send a sound to a room
• Send a thought to a room
• Send a whisper to a user in your room
• Send a whisper to a user outside your room
• Start ignoring the event's user
• Whisper a line of a file to a user

Action Constants

Constants are replaced by specific information.

- %EventNickname%- user's nickname

- %EventServer% - server name

- %EventMessage% - received message

- %EventRoom% - room name.

Action Parameters

Action parameters specify what action to perform. The parameters listed below are available for the actions that need them.

• Rule set name
• Activate
• Nickname
• Network
• Message
• Macro
• Highlight format type
• Reason
• Number of beeps
• Sound file name
• Room
• Text file name
• Sound file name
• Line number

For additional information about options for rules, on the Help menu, click Help Topics, double-click Rules Reference on the Content tab, and then double-click the topic you want.